Most of my local wheelin buddies are coworkers, and I'm 100% going to try to pressure them into ditching work and going to the woods some random weekday.
My (actual) budget build.
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Haha I can imagine the boss putting 2 and 2 together and thinking what the hell are these guys up to
“We gave each other mono, sorry”
“Why the hell were all of your kissing each other? Ya’ll got some weird work orgy going on??? HR is going to love this”
Hahaha it’s actually not TOO bad for a 26 year old New England Toyota. Frame is solid, I just coat it to high hell with woolwax
Pretty damn solid weekend of being outdoors. Camped, cooked tomahawk steaks on the open fire, shot 500 rounds, fished and did some good wheeling. Traveled through Massachusetts, both polar opposite sides of northern New Hampshire- from the white mountains to the upper valley, Maine and Vermont. Hit a historic trail here that’s on the verge of being closed down, bucket list on my New England trails.
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Nothing worse than when you have to sit the and do surgery on the damn thing to remove it and a 15 min job turns into a hour
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Or it comes loose on the trail and you leave a trail of gear oil to find your way back.
Happened to my buddy last year on a run we did. Luckily we all carry tools
Took my buddy with a gx470 down some green trails, well I found myself in a headlight deep muddy water crossing, there was a massive rock and what I think was a tree root in the middle of it that I got hung up on, had to get a little aggressive on the gas to get through it. Dumb move, should’ve just winched. My timing belt ended up slipping- bank 1 cam gear was off by 4 teeth and bank 2 was off 180 degrees. Managed to retime it without taking much apart, threw in some new plugs, wires, cleaned the maf and changed the filter. Runs like a top again…….. until my alternator decided to short out on the test run, thankfully it was under warranty so I grabbed a new one and 40 mins later we’re back in action.
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Those look like super fun trails
They are! These are technically our unmaintained roads, we don’t really have trail systems here like out west. I wish pictures did these justice, the rocks are much larger than the camera shows.
I've been awol for a while, so just catching up around here. I'm glad you like the LLS! Incidentally, I designed the logo to be easy to cut out and make a "speed hole" for folks that don't run brand names - hate that added weld & grind time for you; that's the opposite of what I'm after.
Also, your tanks skid reminds me of some speaker mounts I just made for the shop here (unrelated, I know, but fresh on my mind):
I'm enjoying your thread, keep it up.
Thank you I appreciate it! Happy to support another small business- as someone in the welding/fabrication world by trade if a say that you make some great well designed parts.I've been awol for a while, so just catching up around here. I'm glad you like the LLS! Incidentally, I designed the logo to be easy to cut out and make a "speed hole" for folks that don't run brand names - hate that added weld & grind time for you; that's the opposite of what I'm after.
Also, your tanks skid reminds me of some speaker mounts I just made for the shop here (unrelated, I know, but fresh on my mind):
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I'm enjoying your thread, keep it up.
I welded the logo because I didn’t want water and salt sitting inside of there. In New England they salt and brine the roads for 4-6 months out of the year and it destroys everything.